Actors were lying on the ground, moaning and screaming, as firefighters tagged bodies — black for the dead, red for those with life threatening injuries, yellow for less serious injuries, and green for those with minor injuries.

In Maumee at a police training site, five agencies with their SWAT units were responding to a mock hostage situation in which a Maumee police officer was taken hostage by an anti-government resident.

Maumee police Sgt. T.J. Stratton, at the hostage situation, said the training will help local agencies coordinate in the event anything catastrophic should actually happen.

“A lot of money has been funneled into Lucas County public safety,” Sergeant Stratton said. “We’re looking at ‘Has this paid off?’ and ‘Have we trained properly?’ I know the answer will be yes.”

All of the training exercises are being monitored and evaluated by the government, Sergeant Stratton said.

At Chemtrade Logistics in Oregon, HAZMAT and the Northwest Ohio Bomb Squad were responding to a mock incendiary device that was placed on a train carrying a chemical compound.

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